Okay, that title is me making a lame pun on Animal House... Bad. Tonight I went to a yoga class at a place in Coralville - Bikram Yoga, where you do yoga in a room that's somewhere around 90 degrees! It was pretty intense, but I really enjoyed it. It's so crazy how you can use your own body as resistance and struggle so hard just to hold a pose. I mean, standing on one foot doesn't seem hard, but hold it for awhile with your arms just so and wow! Combine that with sweating like a fire hydrant, and I'm pooped! :) (Anyone who is a genetic Trunnell already has an excessive amount of sweat glands, so just imagine doing hothouse yoga... Atleast when you are in such a hot room, it seems like everyone is a sweat machine - it kind of levels the playing field for those of us who natural sweaters!) I would love to go back - I think I could definitely use the flexibility!
I had my pharm. test today - it went fairly well. Not as great as I would like to do, but I think that most people felt that way.
Have you seen the show Ten Years Younger on TLC? I swear they change the host every other day... But there is an episode on right now and the woman is getting her teeth fixed. It's so fascinating for me to watch this show when they have a "cosmetic dentist" doing different things to people. Many times they extensively bleach teeth in one sitting - I can't imagine the sensitivity that those patients will have when they go home! They also never say things like, "And by the way, your teeth are ridiculously white now, but in a week or two they will pick up some stain and won't be near as white." However, tonight the dentist said that the patient's teeth were "quite yellow and the bleaching will take care of that." Teeth ARE yellow. It's inherent to teeth! Now I'm not saying like Cheddar Cheese yellow or anything, but natural teeth have yellowish dentin with translucent enamel over top. They are going to have a yellow hue... I guess I'm anti-bleaching. Our society is so into chemicals and putting them into our bodies to make us look younger or sexier - Botox, hydrogen peroxide for bleaching, silicone for breast implants... How about this? Embrace your smile lines, brush your teeth, be happy with the body God has given you. I'll get off my soapbox now. :)
Happy weekend to everyone!
Nurses
9 years ago
2 comments:
Yoga huh? That sounds interesting! Did you feel tired afterwards or just really sweaty??
I am fascinated about the teeth whitening...tell me more! I too watch Ten Years Younger, and I have to say that I am really disappointed in the way they have changed it. They used to just do hair, makeup, clothing and maybe eyes and teeth. Nothing really too invasive. But the other day I saw them and they were doing plastic surgery! To me that really isn't what the show is about. I want to see how the average person could look ten years younger without spending about $20,000.
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